Wedding Details: Creative Menu Ideas

Today we have more wedding day stationery ideas to share – this time focusing on wedding menus.  Menus are one of my favorite details at a wedding, and I love seeing how the bride and groom choose to give their guests a sneak peek of the meal to come.  Whether you go with a menu at each place setting or as part of the centerpiece, I’ve gathered some of the best ideas to share with you!

A classic round menu with beautiful calligraphy by Calligraphy Katrina. Photo by Krista Mason via Grey Likes Weddings.

This modern type menu (left) would be so easy to DIY.  Photo by Andrea Polito Photography via The Knot.  I also love the idea of tying the menu to a coordinated napkin with a piece of twine (with a love knot, of course!) for more a casual wedding (right).  Photo by Erin Hearts Court via The Knot.

I think just about everyone around the blogosphere fell in love with Anna Bond’s DIY wedding menu wheel – and for good reason!  Details and instructions on Design Sponge.

This napkin wrap menu (left) is so creative and modern! Design by Wiley Valentine, photo by Aaron Delesie via Gina DeDominici.  And these tiny art easels are perfect for making your menu part of table’s centerpiece (right). Photo by Poppy Lane via Style Me Pretty.

Having a western themed affair?  Carry it throughout all of your wedding stationery for a cohesive look.  Designed by Things Are Better with a Parrot.

Hand-illustrated menus have become really popular and they I think they add a great personal touch.  Check out these examples:

Stationery by Christine Schmidt of Yellow Owl Workshop and photo by Aaron Delesie, via MS Weddings (Left).  Notebook sketch menu designed by the groom, Erik Marinovich, and photo by Thayer Photo, via MS Weddings (Right).

Artwork by Erin Jang via her blog, The Indigo Bunting.

Another beautiful custom menu by Anna Bond of Rifle Paper Co.  Photo by Weddings by Two via Style Me Pretty.

These two ideas are genius!  An “interactive” menu photographed by Jennifer Roper via The Knot (left); and a menu that doubles as a favor bag designed by Good On Paper Design, photographed by Janae Shields, via Snippet and Ink (right).

Smock has some beautiful letterpress printed menus; this is the Engadine design with one of my favorite color combinations.

I’m in love with both of these rustic menu designs!  Cutting board centerpiece menu designed by Blue Pool Road and photographed by Bonnie Tsang via Snippet and Ink.  Wood menu created by Melangerie and photographed by Docuvitae via Style Me Pretty.


And while they’re not completely paper-related, how could I leave out chalkboard menus?  Here are two examples of how they can be done in a creative and stylish way.

Colorful chalkboard menu (left)photographed by Kamp Photography via Green Wedding Shoes.  Sundae chalkboard menu (right) features calligraphy by Love, Jenna, photographed by Scott Clark via 100 Layer Cake.

Thanks so much for joining me today!  I hope you’ve enjoyed this round up of creative and stylish wedding menu designs, and if you missed our earlier round-ups of wedding escort and place card ideas you can find them here and here.  I hope this serves as some inspiration for you as your plan your big day!

{images via their respective sources}

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Business Card Ideas and Inspiration #9

I’m in the mood for some pretty business cards today, so I thought I’d pull together a few of my favorite cards from the last couple of weeks for you!  Today I seem to be drawn to crisp black and white with some bright pops of color – and, really, how could you possibly go wrong with that combination?

Black-White-Heart-Business-Cards

September Industry

Milk-Blind-Impression-Business-Card

Milk Inc.

Black-White-Letterpress-Business-Cards

Mode Design with printing by The Mandate Press via FPO

Evan-Huwa-Black-White-letterpress-business-card

Evan Huwa

Meadowlark Creative

Black-White-Letterpress-Business-Card

Halftone Def via FPO

Dolce Press

Floral-Backing-Business-Cards

Interabang via Design Work Life

Vintage-Stamp-Letterpress-Business-Cards

Angela Liguori

T-Cake-Business-Cards

Build Design via Lovely Stationery

Black-Foil-Purple-Edge-Painting-Business-Card

Analogue via Lovely Stationery

Colorful-Business-Cards-Akimbo

Akimbo

For more business card inspiration, check out some of my previous posts right here.  And as always, if you’d like to sub­mit your own busi­ness cards, you can e-mail me right here!

{images via their respec­tive sources}

{happy weekend!}

Happy Friday everyone!  Do you have something fun planned for the weekend?  Tomorrow I’m helping a wedding planner friend with a wedding in Virginia and I’m a wee bit nervous.  Hopefully it will be a fun day, but it’ll definitely be interesting!  Can you believe this is the last weekend of June?  This summer is just flying by!  But in the meantime…

Strawberry Rosemary Sangria via A Cozy Kitchen

…a few links for your weekend!

This week on Oh So Beautiful Paper:

That’s it for me this week!  I hope you all have a wonderful weekend, and I’ll see you back here on Monday!  xoxo

p.s. I still have a bunch of items available in my tag sale.  Check it out!

Bold & Modern Stationery from Fig. 2 Design Studio

Claudia from Fig. 2 Design Studio had one of my favorite booths at the National Stationery Show – I just loved her collection of bright and whimsical cards.  Neon + calligraphy?  Yes please!  Claudia has been busy getting everything ready after the Stationery Show, and she just opened her online shop!  Here are a few of my favorite designs:

Check out lots more over here!

Photo Credits: Mary Kate McKenna for Fig. 2 Design Studio

Business Card Ideas and Inspiration #8

Has it really been two months since my last business card post?  Yeesh!  Well, we’re definitely going to take care of that today with some really pretty, creative, and inspiring business card designs that have caught my eye over the last few weeks…

Blue-Calligraphy-Letterpress-Business-Cards

Craft Lovely

Gold-Engraved-Business-Card

Monday Collective via FPO

Papercut Neon Yellow Business Cards

Love Citron

Hand-Lettering-Business-Card

Marnich via Lovely Stationery

Studio-on-Fire-Neon-Edge-Painting-Business-Card

Studio on Fire

Skinny-Letterpress-Business-Cards

Evan Huwa via Graphic Exchange

Lace-Likes-Business-Card

Lace and Likes

Neon-pink-business-cards

Sita Murt

Square-Business-Card

Cool square business cards by Adam Hill via Lovely Stationery

Lauren-Bailey-Red-Aqua-Business-Card

Lauren Bailey Design

Dolce-Press-Typography-Business-Card

Dolce Press

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Monogram via Lovely Stationery

As always, if you’d like to sub­mit your own busi­ness cards, you can e-mail me right here!

{images via their respec­tive sources}